Boomer Bill vs the Nazis
In Search of Mature Masculinity in a World of Wounded BoyMen
In Part 1, I discussed the origin of my own search for masculinity growing up with an absent father. I also introduced you to Michael Gurian and Sean Kullman and their book, Boys, A Rescue Plan: Moving Beyond the Politics of Masculinity to Health Male Development.
Another colleague I had the pleasure of interviewing is Gary Barker, founder and CEO of Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice. In a recent article, What is a ‘masculine’ workplace, anyway? Barker says,
In his recent appearance on Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg said that workplaces need more ‘masculine energy’ and that the workplace had been ‘neutered.’ I began to ask myself, what about workplaces exactly have been neutered? And what masculine energy is Zuckerberg trying to bring back?
We are living at a time where a regressive kind of masculinity is coming to power throughout the world. We see it with the election of Donald Trump, who once again has ascended to the U.S. Presidency. We are also hearing more about a certain kind of masculinity represented by media personalities Joe Rogan and tech billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.